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Confessions of a 1980's Teen/ Surviving the Dark Ages

I was a youth long ago, and I am finally coming out of the forest, stronger, but dazed nevertheless. I was fourteen in the middle 1980’s. This is when the youth war began. We could say that the hippies...

0 comments    friends 1980 dark ages
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Metal detecting - it's the big one!

BBC NEWS | UK | Anglo-Saxon treasure found The UK's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon gold has been discovered buried beneath a field in Staffordshire. A 55-year old metal detectorist has found a treasure trove of...

3 comments    online news silver
Why did the Romans wear clothing like this in Britain? Photo: wellyg75

Global Warning Environmental Disaster?

It's all over the news - this is the hottest summer ever, in the decade, in the last 5 years. So is the world getting warmer and what, if anything can we do about it. Global Warning has become a Religion...

19 comments    politics science environment
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Hroswitha: the first female dramatist

Hroswitha (which has been variously spelled as Roswitha, Hrotswitha, Hrosvitha, Hrotsuit) is considered to be the first female dramatists and poetesses after the Dark Ages.  She was born between 930 A.D. and...

0 comments    female theatre middle ages
Turn This...71

Mechwarrior Combat part 2

Alright, so, now you have the backstory. *que Michael Buffer* You understand pieces of the mighty Kerensky and his clans. You've heard the story of the Star League Defense Force. I left hints of what is now...

0 comments    mech battletech mech warrior
King Arthur Pendragon, the Orc and other druids and pagans72

In the Beginning - how I met King Arthur

People always ask me how I got involved with King Arthur in the first place and it's a good question. It may well be that I knew him way back in the Dark Ages and was one of his knights then but if so I...

12 comments    king arthur arthur druids
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SCREWED!!! -- Tonight's Episode -- The New York Knicks of the 1990s (Part 2 of 2)

The thing that highlighted sport's Dark Ages (2000-) is conformity. Guys like myself who don't know better always assume that you should go about football and basketball like it's socializing. And what I mean...

0 comments    money online sports
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Mechwarrior Combat part 4

The mechwarrior universe is rich in content. Much like Star Wars, there is a huge tapestry of people and events, cities and planets. Within that universe, the mechwarrior miniature tabletop game has a lot...

0 comments    clix battletech tabletop games
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God Does Exist

There was this survey that I took which only has one question: Do you believe in God?What's so interesting about this survey is not the question itself, for I am a firm believer in God. It was the comments...

12 comments    technology religion god
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Art of the Migration and the Dark Ages

The gothic tribes migrated in waves throughout Western Europe starting around the year 350 AD; specifically, the Visigoths eventually to Spain and Portugal, the Ostrogoths in 487 to France and Italy, and the...

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